Azerbaijan has threathened to expel the representation of the International Committee of the Red Cross from the country unless the international body gets access to two Azerbaijanis who have been captured by Armenian forces in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone in the last days
Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the State Committee for Work with Refugees and IDPs, Ali Hasanov said that he has given a warning to this effect to the Head of the ICRC Delegation in Baku. According to the Azerbaijani News Agency, APA, “Hasanov noted that the failure to arrange a meeting with those who have been taken hostages in Kalbajar region after a week casts some doubt on the activity of ICRC”.
The news agency further quoted the Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister as saying, “Which Armenian hostage has been tortured in Azerbaijani? Why does ICRC immediately apply to Azerbaijani side for meeting when any Armenian is taken hostage? Why Armenian side does not act so? Therefore, I seriously warned the ICRC Azerbaijani representation that if we do not achieve it, serious measures will be taken toward the ICRC representation, even up to banishing from the country… They should take necessary measures”.
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